You Only Do, Buy, Turn (fill in the blank) Once!

[cschin4]

When we went to see "Nemo on Ice" I only brought $100 with us. I was shocked to see every souvenier was $20 a piece! After much whining and gnashing of teeth, I bought the cheaply made overpriced plastic trinkets. Now, these wonderful souveniers are forever lost in a tub in the basement and nobody could care less. Less learned!

[Gruntina]

[QUOTE=cschin4;162232]Well, what is "doing it right" mean anyway? QUOTE]

Doing the short-cut or cheap method in home renovation can lead to expensive problems down the line. The previous homeowners of a friend's home had a wall that buckled. They did a cheap way of fixing it by replacing the sheetrock. The real issue was one end of the house's foundation was sinking but obviously that is expensive and they did not want to go that route.

The sheetrock will again "buckled" with the season changing as the foundation was built on the clay/dirt rather than on a slab concrete. Not doing it the right way will only solve the problem for a very short time.

In these type of cases, doing it the ‘cheap’ way can end up just shortchanging ourselves for the long run.